Ascenty Provides Infrastructure and Connectivity for the Oracle Innovation Center
Oracle’s new Innovation Hub supports industry development through AI, leveraging the ServiceFabric™ connectivity solution
Ascenty, a joint venture between Digital Realty and Brookfield Infrastructure, was chosen by Oracle to provide the full connectivity between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and the infrastructure of the newly launched Oracle Innovation Center, inaugurated in March in São Paulo. At the innovation hub, Oracle utilizes ServiceFabric™—a service orchestration platform provided in Brazil by Ascenty—which delivers high availability and low latency to further enhance the visitor experience.
According to Marcelo Pivovar, CTO of Oracle Latin America, Ascenty plays a crucial role in delivering connectivity between the environment, OCI, and the Internet. “It was a major challenge to integrate this heterogeneous IT landscape—comprising various Oracle partners—into the range of solutions we offer in our cloud. Ascenty acted as a key enabler of this interconnection. The Innovation Center network is also connected to the Oracle Solution Center, providing access to a wide range of infrastructure solutions, such as Cloud at Customer equipment, our latest Exadata version, Hybrid & Edge Computing, Multicloud, and GPUs for AI processing,” he says.
Connectivity to the cloud is established via ServiceFabric™, which not only orchestrates services but also connects the innovation hub to two fully independent and redundant FastConnect links between the Oracle Innovation Center and OCI, along with a dedicated internet uplink to further enhance the visitor experience. “This setup ensures applications run with the necessary throughput and latency to deliver top-tier performance. Latency from Oracle’s office to the cloud, via these links, is among the lowest in the market—around 1 to 2 milliseconds,” says Pivovar.
In addition to providing high availability and low latency for the Innovation Center, Ascenty also ensures seamless integration—by enabling connectivity within Ascenty’s data centers and with any cloud provider worldwide—and neutrality, by allowing interconnection among multiple telecom carriers when needed.
For João Walter Razori, Director of Edge Solutions and Strategy at Ascenty, the most important aspect of this project is its ability to add value to Oracle and the broader technology ecosystem.
“We understand that Oracle’s growth has an impact beyond the Ascenty-Oracle relationship. It influences the entire technology sector and supports national economic development. We saw the Oracle Innovation Center’s potential to bring together partners and deliver a unique experience. The center offers access to advanced technologies and allows visitors to experience the full power of Ascenty’s connectivity,” he emphasizes.
FastConnect Also Available for Clients
The partnership between Ascenty and Oracle is long-standing. Ascenty provides its clients with dedicated, private access to OCI via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect. Through this partnership, Ascenty’s customers gain high-performance access to cloud data and applications, with greater control, flexibility, and scalability.
“There is strong alignment and integration between Oracle’s and Ascenty’s internal teams. Everyone is united by a shared commitment to technological advancement in Brazil. This partnership has only grown stronger over the years,” João Walter concludes.
